Sunil Mittal

Profile: Sunil Mittal CMD, Bharti NEW DELHI: Standing tall at the ET Awards '05 as recipient of the Businessleader of the Year honour, Sunil 'Bharti' Mittal disarmed the Mumbai crowd in his own typical way: "This is not just a recognition of the Bharti group. It's a grand applause for small towns that make India Inc what it is. " That's Mr Mittal for you, well-rooted and blunt. The most successful among the first generation entrepreneurs in the country, he took his first steps in...

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has got a total pay package of Rs 27.17 crore for the latest fiscal, an amount which is a huge 324 times of the median employee remuneration of the company. Mittal's total remuneration dipped marginally by 2.52 per cent, from Rs 27.88 crore in 2013-14, largely because of a sharp decline in his "performance linked incentives" from Rs 13.5 crore to Rs 8.25 crore. His 'salary and...

NEW DELHI: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Monday said that the Bharti Group chairman and managing director Sunil Mittal has joined its board of trustees. Mr Mittal is the first Indian to join the board of this prestigious global think tank that has UN secretary general Kofi Annan, among its only three non-US board members.

They say the true test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction to carry on. Corporate India's leaders have steered their ships through tumultuous change in the recent past, as new opportunities emerged, new technologies evolved and new markets opened up. They discarded past notions, imbibed fresh ideas, experimented with new concepts, took big risks. In the process, they reinvented the way India does business. Their stories are far from over, but there's much we...

They're nephews of two of the world's biggest business barons - Atulya, 29, of global steel czar Lakshmi Niwas Mittal , and Ramit, 35, of telecom tycoon Sunil Bharti Mittal . And they've both zeroed in on the same business opportunity: franchising. Pizza franchising. Meet Atulya Mittal, the master franchisee of American pizza delivery chain Papa John's; and Ramit Mittal , who brought PizzaExpress of the United Kingdom to India. ...

NEW DELHI: Pitching for payment bank licence for telcos , telecom tycoon Sunil Bharti Mittal today said traditional banks will not be able to deliver financial services to the lower end of the population without incurring huge losses. Airtel M Commerce Services Ltd, a unit of Bharti Airtel -- the world's third-largest telecom company by number of subscribers -- is among 41 applicants, including the likes of Reliance Industries , ...

NEW DELHI: As Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin arrives in India to pursue a possible bid for Hutch Essar, his existing Indian partner Sunil Mittal on Wednesday said disengagement talks between the two companies has not yet started, but he may meet the India-born official of the British telecom major. No, we have not started any disengagement talk... We have not come to that point as yet, Mittal told reporters on the sidelines of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas here. They (Vodafone)

BARCELONA: It can be termed as unfortunate, but nobody can do anything if someone is contemplating fraud, Indian corporate leader Sunil Mittal said on Tuesday about the massive financial wrong-doings at Satyam Computer. "It's unfortunate. But this is not a corporate governance issue. It is clearly a fraud," Mittal told mediaon the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress being held yere. "Most of the Fortune 500 companies were (being) served by Satyam. The...

KOLKATA: Bharti Enterprises named Rahul Bhatnagar managing director & chief financial officer, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Bhatnagar will report to Bharti Enterprises chairman Sunil Mittal. He steps into the shoes of Manoj Kohli , who recently assumed the role of executive chairman, SBG Cleantech, a three-way JV between Bharti Enterprises, Japan's telecom and Internet major SoftBank and Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group. In his new role,...

KOLKATA: Kolkata: Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel has raked in over $1.3 billion (Rs 8,243 crore approx) by divesting its tower assets in five African countries. The proceeds will be used to reduce debt, the company said on Thursday. In a statement to the BSE and National Stock Exchange , the world's third-largest mobile carrier said "as on date, Bharti Airtel had completed (tower asset) sale transactions in five countries, while in two...

Heading one of India's largest conglomerates must surely make demands on the time of Sunil Mittal , founder and chairman, Bharti Enterprises . That's when technology comes handy, helping him reach where he can't be present in person. Two weeks ago, Mittal was supposed to address the gathering at Future Group's FutureReborn event in Mumbai. But due to an important engagement that came up at the last minute, Mittal had to give the event a miss. A recorded message was...

Bharti Enterprises has bought a minority stake in OneWeb, a consortium comprising Qualcomm , Virgin Group, Airbus , Coca-Cola , among others, which aims to deliver affordable broadband to all parts of the Earth through satellites. Speaking to ET's Romit Guha, Bharti Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said the venture could go a long way in resolving the issue of call drops in India. Importantly, the venture ties...

The age-old practice of Yoga can cure the side effects of chemotherapy in various types of cancer and also increase the patient's life span, experts said on Friday. They have urged nations across the world to integrate Yoga with the modern medicine, as research has shown evidence that Yoga supports treatment and helps patients in tackling several dreaded diseases. "Not just Indian but American and European studies have concluded that Yoga helps in...

One half of the Mittal twins is hitched. Shravin Mittal, one of the twin sons of Sunil Mittal , chairman, Bharti Enterprises , married Sakshi Chhabra in Delhi in the last week of April. The wedding was expectedly intimate. There was a cocktail party for friends and family on April 27, followed by the wedding on April 29 at Taj Palace hotel. Reportedly, invitations to the wedding were accompanied by a box of luxury chocolates from Parisian chocolatier La Maison du...